Reviews

by Nancy Springer Avon, tpb, 246 pages, $12.00 ISBN: 0-380-78413-0 Nancy Springer is coming off of two terrific books, Larque on the Wing and Metal Angel, so I had high expectations for Fair Peril. Thematically, the book is very similar to the preceding pair, built around a middle-aged parent estranged...

by S. M. Stirling Baen, pb, 399 pages, $5.99 ISBN: 0-671-87711-9 This book has a really cool villain. You know she’s the potential scourge of humanity, planning on ruling the planet and annihilating most of its inhabitants. You know she’s a ruthless killer from another dimension, capable of quickly slicing...

by Margaret Ball Baen, pb, 279 pages, $5.99 ISBN: 0-671-87688-0 Why is it that every SF book with college students as protagonists seems to hurl them into another dimension? This isn’t a complaint about Margaret Ball’s largely pleasant novel, just a feeling that this particular subgenre has been left a...

by Brett Davis Baen, pb, 281 pages, $5.99 ISBN: 0-671-87656-2 The setting is present day Washington DC, the site of the upcoming culmination of years of delicate negotiations. Finally, the treaty which will set aside a reservation in the Southwest for America’s faery creatures is about to be signed. After...

by Aaron Allston Baen, pb, 337 pages, $5.99 ISBN: 0-671-87662-7 This is a dark, well-deserved tribute to Kenneth Robeson’s Doc Savage. Allston’s novel is the sort of book in which you know that some of the major characters are not going to live to the end of the work–but he’s...

by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen Baen, hc, 382 pages, $24.00 ISBN: 0-671-87676-7 You have to give a bit of extra credit to an alternate-World War II novel which manages to revive Alvin York as one of its principal heroes. There are a number of other points where this...

by Greg Cox and T. K. F. Weiskopf Bantam, pb, 274 pages, $4.99 ISBN: 0-671-87626-0 What else would you call a collection of future-vampire stories? This is a strong reprint collection, with a few gems. Several of the obvious stories are included, most notably C. L. Moore’s “Shambleau”–still a remarkable...

by Jane Lindskold Avon, pb, 220 pages, $4.99 ISBN: 0-380-77527-1 Lindskold’s characters are wonderful. This not-quite-long-enough novel is worth reading for the outsiders it brings to life, from its madwoman protagonist to the wolfpack of orphans and homeless who befriend her. The plot, especially the ending, could use some thickening,...